ARMS FOR WHAT

There are people in white coats
sitting at counters in laboratories and research centres,
law-abiding, tax paying citizens,
family folk who vote and are kind to old people and dogs;
and their job is to design how bullets can cause maximum damage,
To work out what toxic chemicals can do most harm
- without actually killing. Because that is murder, against the law.
They work out how land mines can sever limbs best, bombs destroy
and then, perhaps, the lucrative contracts
in designing foot prosthetics and rebuilding cities and services, to follow.
How, even to make use of those bothersome humanitarians making a fuss.
Invent 3D body parts - the wonders of science - nearly better
than the Creator managed to start with.
Then the tradesmen and businesses that market and sell these useful commodities
to the highest bidders, regardless of whether its drug barons or rogue states,
illegitimate companies and mercenaries, or terrorist cells,
but as much the secret services and military police
of so called first world legal, democratic states - signatories to:
- international conventions for non- proliferation treaties
- human rights organisations and members of United Nations
via the banking cartels, complicit and colluding;
top-end consumers and investors in cutting edge hard and software proposals
that not only maim and “eliminate”
(preferably in a nice, sanitary and remote way - drones, very handy, a great trade opportunity…)
legitimized, by statistical surveys, as collateral damage -
the religion of ends justifying means;
breach of all rules of warfare, arrest, interrogation and human rights;
creating the tools and skills to train and operate these devices and techniques on and on.
Big business indeed. Not just to keep the world going round
but for the developer and researcher, the technician and trader
to pay his mortgage and school fees, for his holidays and life insurance.
All, totally kosher and minas moral consequences of course.

When arms were made for embracing friends and welcoming strangers
comforting and nursing babies, the sick and dying;
extending hands in greeting
and enabling laws of peace and progress to be signed:
for people to earn their livings, work and play,
developing wondrous artefacts and abilities;
to paint, write, make music, build homes, grow food and flowers, tend animals.
Arms for loving and making love.